[R] install.packages and MacOS 10.3.8

[Patrick Giraudoux]

Dear Uwe,

That install.binaries() was exactly what I needed...

Thanks a lot.

Uwe Ligges a écrit :

> Patrick Giraudoux wrote:
>
>> Dear Listers,
>>
>> I am trying to install packages via install.packages() from MacOS 
>> 10.3.8. Installing work fine when run from the menu, but the 
>> following command (useful for setting up each computer of the student 
>> computer room)  leads nowhere for some reasons:
>>
>>> pack<-c("ade4","adehabitat","geoR","gstat","KernSmooth","lattice","leaps") 
>>>
>>> install.packages(pack,dependencies=T)
>>
>>
>>
>> trying URL `http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/PACKAGES'
>> Content type `text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1' length 51500 bytes
>> opened URL
>> ==================================================
>> downloaded 50Kb
>>
>> also installing the dependencies 'SparseM', 'gee', 'waveslim', 
>> 'splancs', 'maptools', 'spdep', 'pixmap', 'ape', 'tripack'
>>
>> trying URL `http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/SparseM_0.60.tar.gz'
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> [SNIP]
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>>
>> * Installing *source* package 'SparseM' ...
>> ** libs
>> /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/bin/SHLIB: line 1: make: 
>> command not found
>> ERROR: compilation failed for package 'SparseM'
>> * Installing *source* package 'gee' ...
>> ** libs
>> /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/bin/SHLIB: line 1: make: 
>> command not found
>> ERROR: compilation failed for package 'gee'
>>
>> etc...
>>
>>
>> Can anybody tell me what goes wrong with this command (which usually 
>> work without any problem with R 2.0.1 and Windows XP).
>
>
>
> So at least "make" and probably much more is missing on your machines 
> (or not in your path or whatever). You might want to try 
> install.binaries() instead (which is similar to install.packages() on 
> Windows, since it installs binary packages rather than trying to 
> compile and install source packages) - or set up your machines with 
> the required set of tools.
>
> Uwe Ligges
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>
>> Thanks in advance,
>>
>> Patrick
>>
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